Primitive aliases #44
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This seems useful and, from a distance, seems to be a straightforward change: as long as we have the info that a signature item is a primitive, I don’t see any obstacle to typechecking aliases of it. |
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July 23, 2024 11:07
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From a distance, this looks like a nice proposal that allows avoiding the error-prone duplication of external declarations. In favor! |
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Thanks for the review so far. I have implemented this and opened PR #13377 against the main OCaml repo. |
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This is a proposal for extending the syntax for
externalprimitives, making it easier to re-bind them under a different identifier, without reiterating the entire description (type, attributes, and symbols).Rendered version
(Thanks to @goldfirere for reviewing this RFC)